Archive for June, 2010

Jack said

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Some sound bites

  • ARGIS 10 was a 2,000 man year job
  • Why is Google Maps so easy, why is GIS so hard? Because GIS was Engineered to be difficult.
  • The Google  Map “environment” was a gift
  • ArcGIS.com Community Base Map, like OpenStreetMap, but from authorities data sources
  • ArcGIS.com is hoped to be the  geo “Flickr”
  • GIS is a Design tool
  • GIS must move into the decision making frame, not just describing.

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